clubbists

The clubbists tittered, except the girl called Tess -- in whom a slow heat seemed to rise at the sense that her father was making himself foolish in their eyes.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

Waterloo Place, they went along Pall Mall on foot, where in place of the usual well-dressed clubbists -- rubicund with alcohol -- were to be seen, in linen pinafores, flocks of house-painters pallid from white lead.

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

The clubbists tittered, except the girl called Tess -- in whom a slow heat seemed to rise at the sense that her father was making himself foolish in their eyes.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884

"They leave the chamber when the President puts the question and invite the deputies of their party to follow them, or cry out to them not to take part in the deliberation: through this desertion, the clubbists become the majority, and decree whatever they please."

The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

Lyons clubbists, led by Charlier, have arranged for a massacre on

The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

The clubbists refuse to give them up so long as the king refuses to accept the Constitution; meanwhile they do not hesitate to say that "at the very first gun on the frontier, they will cut the throats of all the nobles and unsworn priests."

The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

But he could not disappoint the hungry clubbists again, and he ran the schooner into the bay.

All Adrift or The Goldwing Club Oliver Optic 1859

As a means of gaining over the lower orders among the citizens, who with plain good sense opposed their apish tricks, the clubbists demolished a large stone, by which the

Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

Notwithstanding the threat of being treated, in case of refusal, as slaves, the citizens and peasantry, plainly foreseeing that, instead of receiving the promised boon of liberty, they would but expose themselves to Custine's brutal tyranny, withheld their signatures, and the clubbists finally established a republic under the protection of

Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

Numbers of the clubbists fled, or were saved by the French, when evacuating the city, in the disguise of soldiers.

Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835